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Need For KGD Drives Singulated Die Screening

More and better screening of diced dies is essential to meet the quality and cost goals of the 2.5D/3D-IC era.

Chip Failures: Prevention And Responses Over Time

How to identify the causes of failures before they happen, and how latent defects and rising complexity can impact reliability and security after y...

Automation And AI Improve Failure Analysis

Better tools, automation, and analytics improve FA, but determining the cause of failure is still difficult.

Cutting IC Manufacturing Costs By Combining Data

Mixing financial data with manufacturing analytics can boost efficiency, but there are still pockets of resistance.

Failure To Launch

Fundamental changes are needed in failure analysis to keep pace with changes in chip technology.

Optimizing DFT With AI And BiST

AI-driven automation, tighter design-test collaboration, and evolving BiST techniques are redefining DFT strategies.

Simulation Closes Gap Between Chip Design Optimization An...

Rigorous testing is still required, but an abstraction layer can significantly reduce errors in the fab while optimizing device behavior.

IC Equipment Communication Standards Struggle As Data Vol...

Timely engineering fixes rely on communications standards, but data inconsistencies are getting in the way.

Using Test And Metrology Data For Dynamic Process Control

Fine-tuning process control is imperative for advanced packaging, but ongoing challenges can impact yield and quality.

Screening For Known Good Interposers

Increasing interconnect density is making it harder to guarantee these devices will work as expected.

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Round Tables

Chip Failures: Prevention And Responses Over Time

How to identify the causes of failures before they happen, and how latent defects and rising complexity can impact reliability and security after y...

Optimizing DFT With AI And BiST

AI-driven automation, tighter design-test collaboration, and evolving BiST techniques are redefining DFT strategies.

DFT At The Leading Edge

Rising complexity and heterogeneous integration are reshaping test methodologies and fault coverage, but challenges persist.

Why Chips Fail, And What To Do About It

Improving reliability in semiconductors is critical for automotive, data centers, and AI systems.

New Challenges In IC Reliability

How advanced packaging, denser circuits, and safety-critical markets are altering chip and system design.

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Multimedia

What’s Changing In Outlier Detection

Augmenting testing metrics to improve reliability.

Using AI In Semiconductor Inspection

Finding anomalies and defects faster in complex chip and package topographies.

Speeding Up Acoustic Wafer Inspection

Why rotational scanning shrinks inspection time in complex chips and packages.

Real-Time Safety Monitoring

How do you know when a safety-critical chip is working properly?

Making Adaptive Test Work Better

How to manage more data efficiently during test.

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